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Rural and urban population, by provinces and territories, 1891, 1901, 1911 and 1921
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| 1911 | 1921 | Numerical increase in decade 1911 to 1921 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | Urban | |
| number | ||||||
| Prince Edward Island | 78,758 | 14,970 | 69,522 | 19,093 | -9,236 | 4,123 |
| Nova Scotia | 306,210 | 186,128 | 296,799 | 227,038 | -9,411 | 40,910 |
| New Brunswick | 252,342 | 99,547 | 263,432 | 124,444 | 11,090 | 24,897 |
| Quebec | 1,038,9344 | 966,8424 | 1,038,630 | 1,322,569 | -304 | 355,727 |
| Ontario | 1,198,8033 | 1,328,489 | 1,227,030 | 1,706,632 | 28,227 | 378,143 |
| Manitoba | 261,0293 | 200,365 | 348,502 | 261,616 | 87,473 | 61,251 |
| Saskatchewan | 361,0371 | 131,3951 | 538,552 | 218,958 | 177,515 | 87,563 |
| Alberta | 236,6332 | 137,6622 | 365,550 | 222,904 | 128,917 | 85,242 |
| British Columbia | 188,796 | 203,684 | 277,020 | 247,562 | 88,224 | 43,878 |
| Yukon Territory | 4,647 | 3,865 | 2,851 | 1,306 | -1,796 | -2,559 |
| Northwest Territories | 6,5073 | - | 7,988 | - | 1,481 | - |
| Royal Canadian Navy | - | - | 485 | - | 485 | - |
| Total | 3,933,696 | 3,372,947 | 4,436,361 | 4,353,133 | 503,665 | 1,079,175 |
| * The population (98,967) in territory now comprised in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and in Yukon and the Northwest Territories was classified as rural in the census of 1891. | ||||||
| 1. As corrected in Census Report, Prairie Provinces, 1916. | ||||||
| 2. Volume I, Census 1911, places the urban population of Alberta for that year at 141,937. Included in this figure was the population (5,250) of twelve places that, according to the Report of the Municipal Commissioner for Alberta, were not then incorporated. These places were Aetna, Banff, Bankhead, Bellevue, Bickerdike, Canmore, Cardiff, Exshaw, Hillcrest, Passburg, Queenston and Elmpark. The correction resulting from this and from other small adjustments consequent upon more definite knowledge as to incorporated areas, places the urban population for 1911 at 137,662. Similar corrections have been made in the urban and rural figures for the census of 1901. | ||||||
| 3. As changed by Extension of Boundaries Act, 1912. | ||||||
| 4. The urban population of 970,791 shown in Volume I, Census 1911, is reduced to 966,842 by the transfer of the population of Maniwaki, Martinville, Moisie, St. Bruno, St. Martin and St. Vincent de Paul from urban to rural, by adjustments in area of the villages of Ste. Anne and Ste. Genevieve; and Extension of Boundaries Act, 1912. | ||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928. | ||||||
